6 Q’s About the News

HOW, according to them, does a cat’s lapping method depend on its “instinctive ability to calculate the point at which gravitational force would overcome inertia and cause the water to fall”? (Besides the video and article, you might also take a look at this graphic.)HOW many times a second does a cat lap?

WHAT did the engineers videotape to figure out whether bigger cats lap at different speeds?

WHEN did Dr. Roman Stocker first get interested in the cat-lapping question?

WHERE did the engineers acquire the machine that mimicked a cat’s tongue to use for their calculations?

To what scientific WHY or HOW questions would you like answers?

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